Towards a Feminist Metaethics of AI

Abstract

Seeking to understand and explain morality and moral judgements, it consists in descriptive second-order reflection on ethics. Not only does it refrain from evaluating extant morality but might even legitimise it from a place of authority.Given its origins in a political movement, feminist philosophy is underpinned by a commitment to normativity. From a feminist perspective, metaethics would be asking not only how we are but also how we should (or should not) be doing ethics. Thus, feminist metaethics includes normative second-order questions about ethics, too.

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“…This distinction is important because addressing the ethics of technology without specifying the ethics framing collapses together different aspects of ethical work. Furthermore, as Siapka notes, "Although much of the literature focuses on identifying a suitable ethical framework for the development and deployment of AI, there have not been comparable efforts for the identification or construction of frameworks within which to carry out a second-order reflection on AI ethics" (Siapka, 2022). AI metaethics invites us to think about whether there is such a thing as fairness, who defines fairness, and whether fairness can be a realistic goal.…”